Friends of Tice Creek is dedicated to regenerating a healthier Tice Creek by working in community with the Tice Creek watershed. As a committee within Sustainable Rossmoor, our members and allies seek to achieve balance between our land’s precious ecosystems and the human community of Rossmoor.
Our perspective is inspired by the visionary environmentalist Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic as described in A Sand County Almanac. When we speak of the land or watershed, we mean not only the creeks and marshes, but also all native wildlife including fish, birds, deer, and coyotes, along with their habitat including all native plants, shrubs, and trees.
Our mission of creek renewal and land stewardship is based on the principle of reciprocity. We see our role as insuring that Rossmoor’s human community uses and manages our open space in a way that will facilitate and never block nature’s inherent ability to regenerate itself through all its cycles.
Some of our strategies for a healthier creek:
- Community science and Water Quality protection
- Riparian wildlife habitat, aquatic wildlife, bird counts
- Ecological landscaping and tree canopy preservation by replanting oaks
- Celebrating the serenity and beauty of biodiversity in a re-wilded Tice Creek
- Pursuing local (or community) issues in the face of the climate crisis